FORAGE PLANTS— ANTHYLLIS VULNERARIA. 121 



to middle of April — sometimes alone and sometimes 

 in a corn crop (Oats or Eye), and furnishes after the 

 removal of the corn crop a good cutting or pasturage. 

 The quantity ef seed required is about equivalent to 

 30 lbs. per English acre. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria. 



A forage plant much used in Northern Germany 

 for soils too light for Eed Clover. It is culti- 

 vated both for mowing and grazing — does not stand 

 more than one year's mowing, but in a pasture will 

 continue for three or four seasons. In summer it fills 

 the gap in the fodder-supply between the first and 

 second cutting of Eed Clover. As a resister of drought 

 it will compare even with Sheep's Fescue, but on arid 

 soils its leaves become somewhat woolly. It is a very 

 hardy plant, resisting the heat of summer as well as 

 the cold of winter. As it is almost insensible to 

 atmospheric influences, it is of very rare occurrence 

 for it to fail, and then it gives a sure, though not a 

 large, return. It is not recommended for land that 

 wiU grow clover, but is very useful for soils on which 

 clover does not succeed, and where Serradella or 

 Yellow Lupins give but a feeble and uncertain return. 

 Horses do not care for it ;' but sheep, goats, and homed 

 cattle eat it greedily. If one wishes to have two 

 cuttings in the season, it is necessary to take the first 

 before the flowering stage ; but if only one cutting is 

 wanted, and the second crop to be fed ofi', it is best to 

 cut it when in fuU flower, so that the second growth 



